A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1883 - 478 páginas |
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... light upon the authors ' times and surroundings , and note the great influences at work helping to make their writings what they are ; it may point out such of these as should be studied , and may present extracts from them full of the ...
... light upon the authors ' times and surroundings , and note the great influences at work helping to make their writings what they are ; it may point out such of these as should be studied , and may present extracts from them full of the ...
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... light thus shed . We have inserted short estimates of the leading authors , made by the best English and American critics . These criticisms are to be used as indicated above , and as pointed out in the Introductory Lesson . They are ...
... light thus shed . We have inserted short estimates of the leading authors , made by the best English and American critics . These criticisms are to be used as indicated above , and as pointed out in the Introductory Lesson . They are ...
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... light thus added . Let this also be remembered - that what the author of the text - book or the critics whom he quotes may say of these writings is not to be received and retailed without question , but is to be passed upon by the pupil ...
... light thus added . Let this also be remembered - that what the author of the text - book or the critics whom he quotes may say of these writings is not to be received and retailed without question , but is to be passed upon by the pupil ...
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... light which Beowulf finds in the Grendel's dwelling , under the waters , resembles the serene light of the sun ; and the sword which has been bathed in the monster's blood melts immediately like ice . ” — Wright . - BIBLIOGRAPHY . ANGLO ...
... light which Beowulf finds in the Grendel's dwelling , under the waters , resembles the serene light of the sun ; and the sword which has been bathed in the monster's blood melts immediately like ice . ” — Wright . - BIBLIOGRAPHY . ANGLO ...
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... light , beautiful and pleasant , and left this feeble life . ' 6 The war poetry of England at this time was probably as plentiful as the religious . But it was not likely to be written . down by the writers who lived in religious houses ...
... light , beautiful and pleasant , and left this feeble life . ' 6 The war poetry of England at this time was probably as plentiful as the religious . But it was not likely to be written . down by the writers who lived in religious houses ...
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Página 398 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 438 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 410 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Página 410 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 410 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 216 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,• View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer...
Página 437 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 197 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 262 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 421 - ... human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...